Shining force

[kainemaxwell]

So ive played the sf series off and on in the past, but recently got the 3 games from sega classics on the google store. ive been really enjoying sf1 even though i suck at strat rpgs. up to the last fight in chapter 4 now and grinding some to start a few promotions.

[gbpxl]

I never really played them but I liked Phantasy Star a lot so I assume SF is good too

[bb_hood]

Shining Force 1 is good, however Shining Force 2 & Shining Force CD are really excellent games.
Those are the 2 SF games to check out.
And they are quite different from Phantasy Star... Shining Force is very much the better series.

[Aussie2B]

Phantasy Star and Shining Force have basically nothing in common, besides being RPGs published by Sega. I'm not a Phantasy Star fan, but I love the Shining Force series. The first one is my favorite, but basically all the 90s Shining Force games are excellent. The only Genesis game I like more than Shining Force is Monster World IV.

[Natty Bumppo]

Master of Monsters and Warsong for the Genesis are worth a look if you like the SF games.

[Edmond Dantes]

Note to self: play Warsong sometime (I have an import copy for the PC Engine but, ya know, that's in Japanese)

I beat Shining Force 1 for the first time like three years ago. It was quite a ride. Part of me is curious about the GBA version (whcih is a remake) but one thing i immediately dislike is the redone character designs. The deer-girl Kris suddenly looks like Link from Legend of Zelda and in general the deer-people all look more humanoid, which I assume is in an attempt to make them more marketable, but I prefer their more elongated snouts from the original.

It's a weird thing, I remember finding Shining Force 1 better than SF2 even though A) they have the same gameplay and B) SF2 easily has better music. Dunno why I would prefer one over the other. Maybe I was just burned out.

... and like people have said, Shining Force isn't anything like Phantasy Star. One is a strategy-RPG, the other is just an RPG. IT's weird though as Shining Force itself is technically a spinoff of Shining in the Darkness, which was Sega Does Wizardry (IE a first person Dungeon crawler), and apparently several Shining Not-Force games exist.